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LAX suspect’s family expresses sympathy to victims

PENNSVILLE, N.J. – Relatives of the suspect charged in last week’s Los Angeles airport shooting offered sympathy Monday to the family of the TSA officer who was killed, saying they were “sh...

DATE: Nov 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.N.: Private security to earn $244 billion by 2016

UNITED NATIONS – The private military and security business is growing by 7.4 percent a year and on track to become a $244 billion global industry by 2016, the U.N.’s expert on mercenaries r...

DATE: Nov 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Report slams U.S. doctors involved in interrogations

WASHINGTON – A report by a medical task force says Defense Department and CIA health professionals violated professional ethics standards by helping to develop interrogation and torture tech...

DATE: Nov 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

India vies for elite role in space with Mars trip

NEW DELHI – India is aiming to join the world’s deep-space pioneers with a journey to Mars that it hopes will showcase its technological ability to explore the solar system while seeking sol...

DATE: Nov 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Egypt’s Morsi tells court he is still nation’s leader

CAIRO – After four months in secret detention, deposed President Mohammed Morsi defiantly rejected a court’s authority to put him on trial Monday, saying he still was Egypt’s leader and that...

DATE: Nov 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

BP argues against spill settlement change NEW ORLEANS – A federal appeals court heard dueling arguments Monday on whether a judge should have approved BP’s multibillion-dollar ...

DATE: Nov 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Report faults states over day-care rules

WASHINGTON – Parents with children in day care often assume workers have cleared background checks and the facility has passed unannounced inspections, but a review to be released Tuesday fi...

DATE: Nov 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Rising tide of drug trafficking in Caribbean

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Assault rifles at the ready, police in a speedboat scan the coastline as they slice through the slate-gray water, aware that the rocky shorelines and fishing villages tha...

DATE: Nov 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

For Obama, a sudden struggle with personal appeal

WASHINGTON – For years, President Barack Obama’s personal favorability ratings served as a political firewall that sustained him through an economic recession, grueling fights with congressi...

DATE: Nov 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

TSA requesting tighter security

WASHINGTON – The union representing airport screeners for the Transportation Security Administration says Friday’s fatal shooting of an agent at Los Angeles International Airport highlights ...

DATE: Nov 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

White House: No love for leaker Snowden

WASHINGTON – The White House and the leaders of the intelligence committee in Congress are rejecting National Security Agency-contractor Edward Snowden’s plea for clemency. “Mr. S...

DATE: Nov 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

Alabama airport reopens after threat BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Birmingham airport reopened Sunday after a threat prompted an investigation by bomb technicians, flight diversions and ...

DATE: Nov 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World